The British Empire A Very Short Introduction Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 43,9 Mb
• Release Date : 30 May 2013

The British Empire influenced many aspects of the world we live in today. The international system remains heavily marked by British imperialism, and the borders, nations, and federations it created.

• Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
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• Release Date : 10 August 2000

Part of The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, this book spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted parliamentary reform.

• Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
• File Size : 45,5 Mb
• Release Date : 10 August 2000

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 44,5 Mb
• Release Date : 22 August 2002

A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition

• Publisher : Penguin UK
• File Size : 34,9 Mb
• Release Date : 06 September 2012

A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John Darwin The British Empire shaped the world in countless ways:

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• File Size : 50,6 Mb
• Release Date : 27 May 2004

Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. And British imperial history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 51,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 May 2024

Decolonization is the term commonly used to refer to this transition from a world of colonial empires to a world of nation-states in the years after World War II. This

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 27 October 2011

Examines the key roles of Scots in central aspects of the Atlantic and imperial economies from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, and demonstrates that an understanding of the relationship

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 11 October 2018

Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that that the Empire was about adventure and excitement,

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 2015

For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond.